Quality Court, WC2A

Quality Court is a courtyard, built around 1700.

A wonderful labyrinth of alleys and courts used to straggle between Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane, but sadly, of these dozens of minute burrows, only a handful now remain. Quality Court, as we might devise from its name, was one of the more ‘classy’ addresses in the district. It was built about 1700, although not specifically with the view of attracting the upper crust of society to its confines, but with its stylish houses and spacious accommodation that is just what happened. When the properties went up for sale they came in droves, but, of course, the dwellings were few and so the speculators made their offers to the highest bidders.

John Strype, writing up his survey in 1720 says this is ‘a very handsome, large and airy Court, lately built, with very handsome brick houses…’ It was then called New Court but resulting from the life style of the new inhabitants was commonly known as Quality Court – much in the same way as we now refer to selected roads where the supremely wealthy reside, as ‘Millionaires Row’. Strype continues ‘for the goodness of the houses, and the inhabitants, is by some called Quality Court.’

Quality Court is still rich in quality with its old stone flag paving and potted shrubbery dotted here and there. Situated at the far end of the Court, at number 45, is the Patent Office, from where patents are issued and where the Patent Roll, recording the patents issued in the United Kingdom within any year, is kept. There is no doubting that this is Quality Court – its name is boldly displayed in wrought iron letters over its covered access in Chancery Lane.

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MCNALLY Blackfriars Added: 17 May 2021 09:42 GMT	Blackfriars (1959 - 1965) I lived in Upper Ground from 1959 to 1964 I was 6 years old my parents Vince and Kitty run the Pub The Angel on the corner of Upper Ground and Bodies Bridge. I remember the ceiling of the cellar was very low and almost stretched the length of Bodies Bridge. The underground trains run directly underneath the pub. If you were down in the cellar when a train was coming it was quite frightening Reply
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? Reply
Bruce McTavish Lambeth North Added: 11 Mar 2021 11:37 GMT	Kennington Road Lambeth North station was opened as Kennington Road and then Westminster Bridge Road before settling on its final name. It has a wonderful Leslie Green design. Reply
Scott Hatton Blackmoor Street, WC2B Added: 11 Sep 2020 19:47 GMT	Millions Of Rats In Busy London The Daily Mail on 14 April 1903 reported "MILLIONS OF RATS IN BUSY LONDON" A rat plague, unprecedented in the annals of London, has broken out on the north side of the Strand. The streets principally infested are Catherine street, Drury lane, Blackmore street, Clare Market and Russell street. Something akin to a reign of terror prevails among the inhabitants after nightfall. Women refuse to pass along Blackmore street and the lower parts of Stanhope street after dusk, for droves of rats perambulate the roadways and pavements, and may be seen running along the window ledges of the empty houses awaiting demolition by the County Council in the Strand to Holborn improvement scheme. The rats, indeed, have appeared in almost-incredible numbers. "There are millions of them," said one shopkeeper, and his statement was supported by other residents. The unwelcome visitors have been evicted from their old haunts by the County Council housebreakers, and are now busily in search of new homes. The Gaiety Restaurant has been the greatest sufferer. Rats have invaded the premises in such force that the managers have had to close the large dining room on the first floor and the grill rooms on the ground floor and in the basement. Those three spacious halls which have witnessed many as semblages of theatre-goers are now qui:e deserted. Behind the wainscot of the bandstand in the grillroom is a large mound of linen shreds. This represents 1728 serviettes carried theee by the rats. In the bar the removal of a panel disclosed the astonishing fact that the rats have dragged for a distance of seven or eight yards some thirty or forty beer and wine bottles and stacked them in such a fashion as to make comfortable sleeping places. Mr Williams. the manager of the restaurant, estimates that the rats have destroyed L200 worth of linen. Formerly the Gaiety Restaurant dined 2000 persons daily; no business whatever is now done in this direction. Reply
Linda Webb Hungerford Stairs Added: 27 Sep 2021 05:51 GMT	Hungerford Stairs In 1794 my ancestor, George Webb, Clay Pipe Maker, lived in Hungerford Stairs, Strand. Source: Wakefields Merchant & Tradesmens General Directory London Westminster 1794 Source: Hungerford Stairs Reply
Richard Roques Hungerford Stairs Added: 21 Jan 2021 16:53 GMT	Buckingham Street residents Here in Buckingham Street lived Samuel Pepys the diarist, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling Reply
Jude Allen Orange Street, WC2H Added: 29 Jul 2021 07:53 GMT	Bra top I jave a jewelled item of clothong worn by a revie girl. It is red with diamante straps. Inside it jas a label Bermans Revue 16 Orange Street but I cannot find any info online about the revue only that 16 Orange Street used to be a theatre. Does any one know about the revue. I would be intesrested to imagine the wearer of the article and her London life. Reply
Lena White Conduit Street, N1 Added: 18 Mar 2021 13:08 GMT	White Conduit Street, N1 My mum, Rosina Wade of the Wade and Hannam family in the area of Chapel Street and Parkfield Street, bought her first “costume” at S Cohen’s in White Conduit Street. Would have probably been about 1936 or thereabouts. She said that he was a small man but an expert tailor. I hope that Islington Council preserve the shop front as it’s a piece of history of the area. Mum used to get her high heel shoes from an Italian shoe shop in Chapel Street. She had size 2 feet and they would let her know when a new consignment of size 2 shoes were in. I think she was a very good customer. She worked at Killingbacks artificial flower maker in Northampton Square and later at the Halifax bombers factory north of Edgware where she was a riveter. Reply
The Underground Map Whitehall, SW1A Added: 8 Dec 2020 00:24 GMT	Othello takes a bow On 1 November 1604, William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello was presented for the first time, at The Palace of Whitehall. The palace was the main residence of the English monarchs in London from 1530 until 1698. Seven years to the day, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Tempest was also presented for the first time, and also at the Palace of Whitehall. Reply
Jeff Owen Owen Street, EC1V Added: 20 Mar 2021 16:18 GMT	Owen’s School Owen Street is the site of Owen’s Boys’ School. The last school was built in 1881 and was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the development which stand there today. It was a “Direct Grant” grammar school and was founded in 1613 by Dame Alice Owen. What is now “Owen’s Fields” was the playground between the old school and the new girls’ school (known then as “Dames Alice Owen’s School” or simply “DAOS”). The boys’ school had the top two floors of that building for their science labs. The school moved to Potters Bar in Hertfordshire in 1971 and is now one of the top State comprehensive schools in the country. The old building remained in use as an accountancy college and taxi-drivers’ “knowledge” school until it was demolished. The new building is now part of City and Islington College. Owen’s was a fine school. I should know because I attended there from 1961 to 1968. Reply
Reg Carr Elstree Street, N1C Added: 10 Feb 2021 12:11 GMT	Campbellite Meeting In 1848 the Campbellites (Disciples of Christ) met in Elstree Street, where their congregation was presided over by a pastor named John Black. Their appointed evangelist at the time was called David King, who later became the Editor of the British Millennial Harbinger. The meeting room was visited in July 1848 by Dr John Thomas, who spoke there twice on his two-year ’mission’ to Britain. Reply

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roger morris Atherton Road, IG5 Added: 16 Oct 2021 08:50 GMT	Atherton Road, IG5 (1958 - 1980) I moved to Atherton road in 1958 until 1980 from Finsbury Park. My father purchased the house from his brother Sydney Morris. My father continued to live there until his death in 1997, my mother having died in 1988. I attended The Glade Primary School in Atherton Road from sept 1958 until 1964 when I went to Beal School. Have fond memories of the area and friends who lived at no2 (Michael Clark)and no11 (Brian Skelly) Reply
margaret clark Thrawl Street, E1 Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT	Margaret’s address when she married in 1938 ^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer. Reply
Martin Eaton Shoreditch Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT	Boundary Estate Sunbury, Taplow House. Reply
Simon Chalton Duppas Hill Terrace, CR0 Added: 10 Oct 2021 21:52 GMT	Duppas Hill Terrace 1963- 74 I’m 62 yrs old now but between the years 1963 and 1975 I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace. I had an absolutely idyllic childhood there and it broke my heart when the council ordered us out of our home to build the Ellis Davd flats there.The very large house overlooked the fire station and we used to watch them practice putting out fires in the blue tower which I believe is still there. I’m asking for your help because I cannot find anything on the internet or anywhere else (pictures, history of the house, who lived there) and I have been searching for many, many years now. Have you any idea where I might find any specific details or photos of Duppas Hill Terrace, number 23 and down the hill to where the subway was built. To this day it saddens me to know they knocked down this house, my extended family lived at the next house down which I think was number 25 and my best school friend John Childs the next and last house down at number 27. I miss those years so terribly and to coin a quote it seems they just disappeared like "tears in rain". Please, if you know of anywhere that might be able to help me in any way possible, would you be kind enough to get back to me. I would be eternally grateful. With the greatest of hope and thanks, Simon Harlow-Chalton. Reply
Linda Webb Hungerford Stairs Added: 27 Sep 2021 05:51 GMT	Hungerford Stairs In 1794 my ancestor, George Webb, Clay Pipe Maker, lived in Hungerford Stairs, Strand. Source: Wakefields Merchant & Tradesmens General Directory London Westminster 1794 Source: Hungerford Stairs Reply
jack stevens Whites Row, E1 Added: 26 Sep 2021 13:38 GMT	Mothers birth place Number 5 Whites Row which was built in around 1736 and still standing was the premises my now 93 year old mother was born in, her name at birth was Hilda Evelyne Shaw, Reply
Ron Shepherd 91 Fernhead Road, W9 Added: 18 Sep 2021 17:28 GMT	More Wisdom Norman Joseph Wisdom was born in St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, West London. Reply
Jonathan Penner Pennard Road, W12 Added: 11 Sep 2021 16:03 GMT	Pennard Road, W12 My wife and I, young Canadians, lodged at 65 (?) Pennard Road with a fellow named Clive and his girlfriend, Melanie, for about 6 months in 1985. We loved the area and found it extremely convenient. Reply

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Procter Street, WC1V

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Raymond Buildings, WC1R

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Red Lion Court, EC4A

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Salisbury Court, EC4Y

Salisbury Square, EC4Y Salisbury Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Salisbury Square, EC4Y

Sandland Street, WC1R Sandland Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Sandland Street, WC1R

Sardinia House, WC2A Residential block

Sardinia House, WC2A

Sardinia Street, WC2A Sardinia Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Sardinia Street, WC2A

Sardinia Street, WC2B Sardinia Street, formerly Duke Street, was a street that ran from Prince’s Street in the south to the western side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the north.

Sardinia Street, WC2B

Serjeants Inn, EC4Y Serjeants Inn is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Serjeants Inn, EC4Y

Serle Street, WC2A Serle Street is a road in the WC2A postcode area

Serle Street, WC2A

Sheffield Street, WC2A Sheffield Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Sheffield Street, WC2A

Shoe Lane, EC4A Shoe Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Shoe Lane, EC4A

Silver Vaults, WC1V Silver Vaults is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Silver Vaults, WC1V

South Square, WC1X South Square is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

South Square, WC1X

Southampton Buildings, WC2A Southampton Buildings marks the site of the house of the 4th Earl of Southampton, son of Shakespeare’s patron.

Southampton Buildings, WC2A

St Andrew Street, EC4A St Andrew Street is the northern extension of Shoe Lane.

St Andrew Street, EC4A

St Bride Street, EC4A St Bride Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

St Bride Street, EC4A

St Brides Avenue, EC4Y St Brides Avenue is a narrow alley which leaves Fleet Street almost opposite Shoe Lane.

St Brides Avenue, EC4Y

St Clement’s Passage, WC2A St Clement’s Passage is a road in the WC2A postcode area

St Clement’s Passage, WC2A

St Clements Lane, WC2A St Clements Lane is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

St Clements Lane, WC2A

St Cross Street, EC1N St Cross Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

St Cross Street, EC1N

St Giles House, WC2B Residential block

St Giles House, WC2B

St. Bride Street, EC4A A street within the EC4A postcode

St. Bride Street, EC4A

Staple Inn Buildings North, WC1X Staple Inn Buildings North is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Staple Inn Buildings North, WC1X

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1V Staple Inn Buildings is part of historic Staple Inn.

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1V

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1X Staple Inn Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1X

Star Yard, WC2A Star Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Star Yard, WC2A

Stone Buildings, WC2A Stone Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Stone Buildings, WC2A

Stonecutter Street, EC4A Stonecutter Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Stonecutter Street, EC4A

Strand, EC4A This is a street in the EC4A postcode area

Strand, EC4A

Tavistock Street, WC2B Tavistock Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Tavistock Street, WC2B

Temple Chambers, EC4Y Temple Chambers is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Temple Chambers, EC4Y

Temple, EC4Y A street within the EC4Y postcode

Temple, EC4Y

The Arcade, WC2B The Arcade is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

The Arcade, WC2B

The Australia Centre, WC2B The Australia Centre is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

The Australia Centre, WC2B

Theobald’s Road, WC1N Theobald’s Road is a road in the WC1R postcode area

Theobald’s Road, WC1N

Theobalds Road, WC1N Theobalds Road is one of the streets of London in the WC1X postal area.

Theobalds Road, WC1N

Took’s Court, EC4A Took’s Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Took’s Court, EC4A

Verulam Buildings, WC1R Verulam Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Verulam Buildings, WC1R

Verulam Street, WC1X Verulam Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1X postal area.

Verulam Street, WC1X

Warwick Court, WC1R Warwick Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Warwick Court, WC1R

Waterhouse Square, EC1N Waterhouse Square is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Waterhouse Square, EC1N

Whetstone Park, WC2A Whetstone Park is a road in the WC2A postcode area

Whetstone Park, WC2A

Whitefriars Street, EC4Y Whitefriars Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Whitefriars Street, EC4Y

Wild Court, WC2B Wild Court leads west from the Kingsway.

Wild Court, WC2B

Wine Office Court, EC4A Wine Office Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Wine Office Court, EC4A

Yorkshire Grey Yard, WC1V Yorkshire Grey Yard lies off of Eagle Street, WC1

Yorkshire Grey Yard, WC1V

NEARBY PUBS

All Bar One Holborn This is a bar which was still existing in 2018.

All Bar One Holborn

Brookes Brother Wine Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Brookes Brother Wine Bar

Cella Karaoke Lounge This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Cella Karaoke Lounge

City of York This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

City of York

Corney & Barrow Wine Bars This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Corney & Barrow Wine Bars

Dado 54 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Dado 54

El Vino Fleet Street El Vino Fleet Street

El Vino Fleet Street

Grand Union This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Grand Union

Inn of Court This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Inn of Court

Kanaloa This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Kanaloa

Knights Templar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Knights Templar

Penderel’s Oak This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Penderel’s Oak

Punch Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Punch Tavern

Secrets This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Secrets

Sir Chrisptopher Hatton This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Sir Chrisptopher Hatton

Sir John Oldcastle This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Sir John Oldcastle

Slug and Lettuce This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Slug and Lettuce

St Brides Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

St Brides Tavern

The Albion This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Albion

The Argyle This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Argyle

The Bleeding Heart Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Bleeding Heart Tavern

The Bountiful Cow This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Bountiful Cow

The Bridewell Theatre This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Bridewell Theatre

The Castle This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Castle

The Crown and Sugar Loaf This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Crown and Sugar Loaf

The Dolphin This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Dolphin

The Draft House This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Draft House

The Enterprise This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Enterprise

The Hack & Hop This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Hack & Hop

The Harrow This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Harrow

The Hon. Soc. Of Gray’s Inn This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Hon. Soc. Of Gray’s Inn

The Hoop & Grapes This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Hoop & Grapes

The Old Bell Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Old Bell Tavern

The Old Nick This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Old Nick

The Old Red Lion This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Old Red Lion

The One Tun This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The One Tun

The Polish Bar (Na Zdrowie) This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Polish Bar (Na Zdrowie)

The Seven Stars This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Seven Stars

The Ship Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Ship Tavern

The Square Pig This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Square Pig

The White Swan This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The White Swan

Tipperary This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Tipperary

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Ye Olde Cock Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Ye Olde Cock Tavern

Ye Olde Mitre This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Ye Olde Mitre

Queen’s Park

Queen’s Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.

The north of Queen’s Park formed part of the parish of Willesden and the southern section formed an exclave of the parish of Chelsea, both in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works that included the southern section of Queen’s Park was transferred from Middlesex to the County of London, and in 1900 the anomaly of being administered from Chelsea was removed when the exclave was united with the parish of Paddington. In 1965 both parts of Queen’s Park became part of Greater London: the northern section - Queen’s Park ’proper’ formed part of Brent and the southern section - the Queen’s Park Estate - joined the City of Westminster.

Queen’s Park, like much of Kilburn, was developed by Solomon Barnett. The two-storey terraced houses east of the park, built between 1895 and 1900, typically have clean, classical lines. Those west of the park, built 1900–05, tend to be more Gothic in style. Barnett’s wife was from the West Country, and many of the roads he developed are named either for places she knew (e.g. Torbay, Tiverton, Honiton) or for popular poets of the time (e.g. Tennyson). The first occupants of the area in late Victorian times were typically lower middle class, such as clerks and teachers. Queen’s Park is both demographically and architecturally diverse. The streets around the park at the heart of Queen’s Park are a conservation area.

There is hardly any social housing in the streets around Queens Park itself, and the area was zoned as not suitable for social housing in the 1970s and 1980s as even then house prices were above average for the borough of Brent, which made them unaffordable for local Housing Associations. The main shopping streets of Salusbury Road and Chamberlayne Road have fewer convenience stores and more high-value shops and restaurants. Local schools – some of which struggled to attract the children of wealthier local families in the past – are now over-subscribed. House prices have risen accordingly.

Queen’s Park station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen’s Park on 11 February 1915. On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen’s Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR.

LOCAL PHOTOS

Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388545 Licence:	The old wooden Temple Bar Credit: Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1523115955 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Waterloo Bridge on an 1810 map. TUM image id: 1556885410 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Saint John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway served as the main entry to the Priory, which was the center of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitallers). Credit: Henry Dixon (1880) TUM image id: 1557226611 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Illustration of Fleet Market Credit: William Henry Prior TUM image id: 1530111646 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Mount Pleasant Sorting Office on the north-east corner of Farringdon Road (1910). The present building is on the site of the Coldbath Fields Prison where the punishments were particularly cruel in that they were not only long and physically hard but also pointless. The pub at the back used to open at 9am to serve postal workers. TUM image id: 1620296515 Licence:	William Davenant had Lisle Credit: Henry Herringman, London, 1673 TUM image id: 1522758368 Licence: CC BY 2.0	At the southern end of Carmelite Street in the City of London stood the Victorian-era Whitefriars Fire Station. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1623066010 Licence:	Clerkenwell Green (1898) The water fountain shown here became public toilets. TUM image id: 1620298544 Licence:	Coldbath Square in Clerkenwell was named after a cold water well that stood originally in fields. Cold Bath was fed by a spring which was discovered by a Mr Baynes in 1697. The discoverer declared the water had great power in nervous diseases, and "equalled those of St Magnus and St Winnifred". The bathing hours were from 5am to 1pm, the charge two shillings. The old bathhouse was a building with three gables, and had a large garden with four turret summer houses. In 1811 the trustees of the London Fever Hospital bought the property for £3830, but, being driven away by the frightened inhabitants, the ground was sold for building, the bath remaining as late as 1865. TUM image id: 1620296987 Licence:
Doughty Street is a broad tree lined street in the Holborn district. TUM image id: 1443044786 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Farringdon Road and the Metropolitan Railway, 1868. Looking north from Turnmill Street TUM image id: 1498559756 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Farringdon Street, EC4M TUM image id: 1530111130 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hopton’s Almshouses TUM image id: 1513445642 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Kirby Street sign TUM image id: 1526255978 Licence: CC BY 2.0